Screenshot this. Save it. Print it out and put it up. If you are reading this I wish you nothing but the utmost happiness and joy for both you and your friends and that the shadows that haunt you at this time wither in the light soon to come. You will make it through.
Feeling deeply for everyone in the UK right now. It’s unsettling to see people being forced to hand over ID or scan their face just to access online spaces, places for community, creativity, or even just escape. This isn’t safety. It’s surveillance.
And it doesn’t stop there. Visa and Mastercard are quietly pressuring platforms to censor legal, fictional content, cutting off payments to creators not because they break the law, but because they offend someone’s personal values.
What we’re seeing isn’t protection. It’s control, over speech, art, and access. Adults deserve the freedom to choose what they engage with, without being watched, flagged, or shut out.
Remember the 5th of November.
i want to start by saying that the severity of my experience isnt the same as what others went through with Gunrun. just wanted to share this tidbit because it affected a lot of my friends, including me.
in 2022, i applied for vshojo.
i applied under my "past life".
vshojo, at the time, prefaced that they were looking specifically for smaller streamers. i thought i'd give it a chance because i was very small at the time.
i auditioned. i passed.
i received an email saying that i would be moving to the next stage. as well as some of my friends.
i and others were so excited to have even passed the initial round. that alone was something to be proud of.
we filled out the next part. this mainly contained more.. technical questions. what's your schedule like? are you good with handling technical difficulties? what kind of streaming equipment do you own? etc.
submitted that, and.. well.. got another email back.
i made it to round three. i was so so so happy. i know i wasnt fully accepted yet. but it was still a nice feeling.
so, i waited. i waited a few days for the next step. a few days turned into weeks. a few weeks turned into a few months. nothing. i would frantically check my email almost every. single. day. waiting for something.
eventually, i let it go. they moved on without a word. i was sad, sure, but more confused by the sudden disappearance.
a year later, i started growing as a streamer. i met so many other vtubers and learned a lot by being around them. one day i was chatting with a bigger vtuber and and eventually, the topic of VShojo came up.
they told me they auditioned the same time i did.
she made it to the final round, but they rejected her and the finalists last minute to hire someone they already knew. and these vtubers were GIVEN HUSH MONEY not to tell anyone about it.
the girls were devastated. just like the rest of us who got dropped without warning.
so uh, yeah. thank you wasting everyone's time ig.
oh! one more thing before i forget
you have no idea how many times your talents called me in tears, suffering due to your neglect and the way you constantly mistreated them. they werent getting payed, they werent getting responses from you for over six months, and other heart shattering moments i cant share yet.
is this the treatment you give to those who contributed to your success? no one as sweet and hardworking as them should’ve been treated like that and stolen from.
and with that being said, i dedicate this to you.
https://t.co/7Qp57MwPfM
and so our NDAs are now void
why i left VSHOJO -
back in 2023, vshojo tried to bully me into one of the most predatory contracts that i have ever seen. when i tried to ask more about it, their COO got extremely hostile with me and refused to answer any of my questions and so i had to hire a lawyer in order to get some clarification.
during the talks, it became clear that vshojo would rather let me go than to take less away from me. they were ultimately wanting me to give up more than half of all my sponsor revenue and over 60% of all merch sales. all i asked from them in return, is to not take a cut of the sponsors that i was getting through Mythic, as that cut was already being taken. they said no, they want it all. and so i asked to leave after being treated like i was disposable in our talks. they basically made it seem like they were my employer, and that they're the reason for my success. that i owe them and that i should be happy to give them my money.
in order for me to leave, they demanded i sign an nda that prevented me from speaking to any of the other talent about it. i could not say why i was leaving, i could not say what the terms that i was saying no to were. i even got in trouble for advising them to hire their own attorneys. they would watch my streams, read my discord, and then threaten to sue me. if i said anything that hinted towards how i really felt about the company, i was threatened with a lawsuit.
another one of their leave terms was that they will announce both me and silver on the same day in order to minimize the damage to their company. their COO has begun to push a narrative on 4chan (yes im serious lmfao) and other social media that i am leaving because i plan to join OTK and that both me and silvervale are troublemakers, so they were "letting" us go. later i found out that nyanners wanted to leave around the same time due to also being unhappy with the contract, but was told that she couldn't because it did not fit their narrative that they were pushing internally AND externally. the amount of hate we've gotten over leaving, from fans calling us greedy bitches to people saying we're abandoning our friends and tossing aside the company because we're successful enough, shit was fucking painful. not being able to say anything sucked.
i only found out i didn't get paid for any of my sponsors after i had already signed the NDA. after 2 years, i have still not been paid back fully. to add insult to injury, they also demanded i had to pay them back 10k for some of the anniversary assets which when they sent me back months later, were half finished.
despite all of that, i've had immense faith that the company has gotten better over the past 2 years. i assumed they rewrote their contracts after losing 3 people due to them and seeing all the new talent join.
clearly this was not the case.
now for some fun facts !!
- their company lawyer has an expired law license. he literally does not practice law anymore, yet he was our point of contact for any legal help we needed.
- they actively pitted us against one another during my time there, and compared our success to others. they tried enforcing streaming schedules so that our viewcount would look better due to less overlap.
- they would ALWAYS shit talk other vtuber agencies. they literally would spend company money to get a tiny dig at them. especially hololive, it literally lived rentfree in gunruns head. they were convinced hololive was over when they signed kson and nazuna.
- our previous talent manager got ghosted for 6 months by gunrun, told not to do any work for us and then got fired for "not doing anything". during this fiasco, we weren't able to get any assistance.
- MTD got reprimanded for being creepy to us. lol. got told not to message us privately. go figure.
- i have proof from other streamers attending their IRL parties that MTD would actively shit talk me after i left the company, to paint me in the worst light imaginabe. dunno why ur acting innocent on twitter pretending u werent aware of anything, can't wait to see all the shit that comes out about you because there's LOADS but those aren't my stories to tell.
thanks for reading and thanks to those who stuck around between then and now. thank you for giving me, silver and nyan the benefit of the doubt when we needed it most. 💙
Netanyahu started this war by attacking Iran.
He assassinated Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator, deliberately sabotaging US-Iran nuclear negotiations.
The US must not be dragged into another illegal Netanyahu war – either militarily or financially.
in polish people's republic oranges were seen as exotic fruit to be eaten only during christmas and we had to create shops with 'exotic' western items like toilet paper
A horrific Russian ballistic missile strike on Sumy.Russian missiles hit an ordinary city street, ordinary life – residential buildings, educational institutions, cars on the street… And that’s on the day when people go to church – Palm Sunday, the feast of the Lord's Entry into Jerusalem.
According to preliminary information, dozens of civilians were killed and wounded. Only filthy scum can act like this – taking the lives of ordinary people. My condolences to the families and loved ones. A rescue operation is underway. All necessary services are working at the scene.
The world must respond firmly. The United States, Europe, everyone in the world who wants this war and these killings to end. Russia wants exactly this kind of terror and is dragging this war out. Without pressure on Russia, peace is impossible. Talks have never stopped ballistic missiles and aerial bombs. What’s needed is an attitude toward Russia that a terrorist deserves. I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine and helps us defend life.